A Little Spring Madness

Archcipelago

Messages from the Forest

Caught in the Current

Wool wet felted Catalpa leaf with embroidery

Leaves in Response to: Catalpa on Edge

wool and silk felt reconstruction of a Kentucky coffee tree bipinnate leaf; using a real leaf as the pattern, each pinnae was cut from my felted silk lichen prnts and reassembled leaflet by leaflet. copper wire attaches each pinnae on the leaflet.  The leaflets can be posed in various ways to jut out of the canvas.  Canvas covered in vintage tablecloth.

Kentucky Coffee Tree Leaf

Wool and paper felted leaf of beech tree; cyanotyped and embroidered with human boot imprints and marsh symbols

Beech on Disturbed Ground

Wool and paper felted textile in shape of a redbud leaf, cyanotyped and embroidered with goose tracts, and human boots

Leaves in Response to: Geese on Guard

Wet felted wool and silk chinquapin oak leaf with embeds of felted paper and recycled felt; emboidery

Leaves in Response to:Chinquapin Oak

Wet felted wool basswood leaf with felt rope inclusions

Leaves in Response to: Basswood

Wet felted wool and silk basswood leaf with silk fungi print inclusions; SOLD

Leaves in Response to: Basswood and Fungi

Wool felted leaf of cucumber tree; embroidered; able to be shaped due to embedded armatures

Leaves in Response to: Cucumber Tree

Wet felted wool and silk poplar leaf with embroidery and embedded silk bark imagery

Leaves in Response to: Poplar

Wool and silk wet felted leaf with inlays of silk and felted buttons

Leaves in Response to: Tulip Tree

Wool and silk wet felted leaf of pawpaw tree with inlays of silk lichen fabric; able to be shaped due to embedded armature wire<br />
Shown at the Insights 2024 exhibition Wellington County Museum

Leaves in Response to:Pawpaw

statement

Stitched In Time

Neighbouring Trees

Flow

Reflection

Silk 2

Beneath My Feet

Found Layers

Fallen

Silk 3 - Logwood

Oak Leaves

Sumac Silk

Leaves: an impression features two fibre artists, Sheila Thompson and Beverly Allen, and their perspectives on leaves. Sheila creates felted supersized futuristic leaves as narratives about human impacts on habitats. Beverly coaxes colour and form from leaves on paper and fabric and demonstrates the intrinsic value of leaves as artistic tools and subjects.

Leaves: an Impression